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No. 626,894. Patented June l3, I899.

AQFLESHER &..J. L. CRISLER. CLOTHES PIN.

(Application filed Mar. 2, 1898.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' ALBERT FLESHER AND JOSEPH L. CRISLER, OF ALERT, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY.

CLOTHES-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 626,894, dated June 13, 1899.

Application filed March 2, 1898. Serial No. 672,234. (No model.)

To all whom, it TIMI/y concern:

Be it known that we, ALBERT FLEsHER and JOSEPH L. CRISLER, citizens of the United States, residing at Alert, in the county of Kay and Territory of Oklahoma,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes- Pins; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to clothes-pins; and the object in view is to provide asimple and inexpensive clothes-pin which may be readily applied to a clothes-line of any description at any point intermediate the ends of the line,

thus obviating the necessity of loosening the line at one end in order to thread the clothespins upon the line:

The improved clothes-pin is constructed of galvanized spring-wire to prevent rust and is bent in such manner as to provide resilient or spring terminal portion-s which act in connection with the rest of the device to form spring-clasps for engaging the clothing and binding the same upon the clothes-line. The pin is also formed in such manner as to render it practically impossible for the pin to become displaced from the wire when the pin is out of use and the clothes are removed therefrom.

The detailed objects and advantages of the invention will appearin the course of the subjoined description.

The invention consists in an improved clothes-pin embodying certain novel features and details of construction hereinafter specifically pointed out, illustrated in the drawings, and incorporated in the claim hereto appended.

end view of the pin, showing the clothes-line in cross-section and the pin in its operative position for clamping the clothing. Fig. lis

a similar View showing the pin in its inoperative position or the position it assumes after the clothing has been removed from the line. Fig.'-5 is a perspective view showing the first step in applying the pin to the line. Fig. 6 is a similar view showing the second step.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the views.

The clothes-pin contemplated in this invention is preferably formed of spring-wire of suitable gage and galvanized to prevent rust. The pin comprises, essentially, a pair of spring-loops 1, which are united by a connecting portion 2. Referring to Fig. 2, it will be seen that the loops '1 approach each other very closely at the point 3, or they may be in actual contact with each other at such point. Each loop is united to the connecting portion 2 by an L-shaped portion 4, the two branches of which are substantially at rightangles to each other. The spring-terminal portion of each loop is also provided at its extremity with an L-shaped end 5, consisting of a portion 6, extendingparallel to the upright portion of the L- shaped part which joins the loop and connecting portion, and a laterally-projecting and obliquely disposed or inclined extremity 8, forming an oblique throat or entrance to the loop 1 and also extending beyond the plane of the connecting portion 2, so as to form a shoulder orrest for the clothes-line 9 preparatory to the insertion of the clothes-lineinto the loops 1, or, more accurately speaking,the placing of the clothespin upon the line. The spring-loops 1 are reversely bent, or, in other words, theloopat one side of the pin is bent in a reverse direction from the loop at the other side of the pin,

In applying the pin to a line the meeting portions of the loops 1 are brought against I the clothes-line, and by exerting sufiicient pressure the two loops are sprung apart, so as to allow the line to pass between them and enter the space between the loops and the connecting portion 2, as shown in Fig. 5. The clothes-pin is then given a turn, so

as to engage the projecting extremities-of the spring-terminals beneath or against the clothes-line, the line entering the flaring throats above described. By now giving the pin a slight twist the line will be'caused to pass into and through the throats and may then be forced into the loops 1, whereupon by releasing the pin it will hang on the line with the connecting portion 2 downward. When it is desired to fasten the clothing upon the line, the pin is inverted, so as to bring the connecting portion 2 uppermost. The

pin is then moved longitudinally of the line until the opposing portions of the contiguous loop can pass down and bind the clothing upon the line, the approximately horizontal portion 4 forming a stop for limiting the downward movement of the pin.

Having thus described the invention, what tures in presence of two witnesses.

ALBERT FLESHER. JOSEPH L. ORISLER.

Vitnesses:

'J. L. YARNELL,

E. A. BUNoE. 

